Journal
HEREDITY
Volume 109, Issue 1, Pages 34-40Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.8
Keywords
asparagus bean; association mapping; cowpea; domestication history; linkage disequilibrium; population structure
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- Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Y3090146]
- National Science Foundation of China [30900985]
- Sino-US joint project
- Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
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Association mapping of important traits of crop plants relies on first understanding the extent and patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the particular germplasm being investigated. We characterize here the genetic diversity, population structure and genome wide LD patterns in a set of asparagus bean (Vigna. unguiculata ssp. sesquipedialis) germplasm from China. A diverse collection of 99 asparagus bean and normal cowpea accessions were genotyped with 1127 expressed sequence tag-derived single nucleotide polymorphism markers (SNPs). The proportion of polymorphic SNPs across the collection was relatively low (39%), with an average number of SNPs per locus of 1.33. Bayesian population structure analysis indicated two subdivisions within the collection sampled that generally represented the 'standard vegetable' type (subgroup SV) and the 'non-standard vegetable' type (subgroup NSV), respectively. Level of LD (r(2)) was higher and extent of LD persisted longer in subgroup SV than in subgroup NSV, whereas LD decayed rapidly (0-2 cM) in both subgroups. LD decay distance varied among chromosomes, with the longest (approximate to 5 cM) five times longer than the shortest (approximate to 1 cM). Partitioning of LD variance into within- and between-subgroup components coupled with comparative LD decay analysis suggested that linkage group 5, 7 and 11 may have undergone the most intensive epistatic selection toward traits favorable for vegetable use. This work provides a first population genetic insight into domestication history of asparagus bean and demonstrates the feasibility of mapping complex traits by genome wide association study in asparagus bean using a currently available cowpea SNPs marker platform. Heredity (2012) 109, 34-40; doi:10.1038/hdy.2012.8; published online 29 February 2012
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